Web Info & Tutorials

I was excited when Google announced their first JavaScript API that allows you to write back to a service.

Now, they have released a Blogger client that does the same, which means that you can now manipulate your blog posts directly from JavaScript.

Along with the release there are a few examples such as:

• A tool that takes your upcoming Calendar entries and creates blog posts of the events
• A code snippet that you can add to your website that enables visitors to your site to click on a link to comment on your content on their own blog
• Code that allows you to search blogs on various topics, find entries, and again allow users to comment on their own blog

And finally, Blog.gears, an offline blog editor:

I tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I am offline?

The architecture behind the editor follows the pattern of:

• The UI looks to the local DB for data
• When an event happens it gets queued
• When an event happens the UI tries to send it to the cloud
• Events have status flags to let the system know what is happening

We interviewed Pamela Fox about the application, and she went through the architecture at a high level, and also did a screencast of the application itself.

Eric Abouaf has released Gears in Motion, a tool that allows you to quickly and easily look at your local SQLite database, and make edits on the fly.

You can make schema changes, data chances, and see the entire flow of relationships. It even groks URLs so if you put a JPG in the database, it will just show it to you as you look at the data.

See a running example.

Marcel Oelke has resurrected whatever cipher that he wrote to record pussyfoot shitting using JavaScript and Ajax.

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Check discover a demo of the logger at work

Dominic Mitchell has created a mini jQuery logging plugin that ties Firebug to the call chain.

This means that if you are debugging something you can quickly add a .log("....") in the chain:

Now, I can just stuff a call to .log() in the middle of what I’m doing to see what I’m currently addressing. e.g.

PLAIN TEXT

JAVASCRIPT:

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2. $(root).find('li.source> input:checkbox').log("sources to uncheck").removeAttr("checked");
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The nice thing about logging to firebug is that each node becomes clickable in the console, so you can immediately see the context.

I had never intellection to ingest qualifying URLs that are meet qualifying to the prescript plot as Ned Batchelder explains in his place on Http-https transitions and qualifying URLs.

Who knew.

Sigurd Magnusson of the SilverStripe opensource CMS application pinged us about the SilverStripe 2.1 release which features:

• Blog module with drag & drop widgets: View screencast, Demo (login: admin/password)
• Support for the updated gallery module: Tour, Demo.
• Security system developed by Markus from Google Summer of Code

NOTE: SilverStripe is one of the finalists of the PacktPub open source CMS.